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Just because gas prices have dropped doesn’t mean Ohio should build more highways. Recently, 700 Sierra Club members commented on the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) 2014 Statewide Transit Needs Study. Now we have the opportunity to weigh in on the specific projects that ODOT [...continue reading.]

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Jim Parson explains the many tentacles of his ground source heat pump water system.

This gathering of the Sustainable Living Network toured the home of Jim and Celeste Parson, near Nelsonville, Ohio. The home is powered by a 40-panel PV array with ac-coupled battery backup and includes a solar water heater, solar septic aerator, ground source heat pump, water well with variable-speed constant pressure water pump, and recycled aluminum shingles.

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Dennis Miller takes his sustainable lifestyle seriously. A mechanic by trade he has built a prototype battery powered vehicle (under the label Tao Motors) and uses it to commute from home to his workshop, a distance of 7 miles, at a top speed of around 50 mph. A solar charging station at each end fills up the batteries for the next leg of the journey. This may be a glimpse into a future where solar charging stations and interchangeable battery packs replace the gasoline filling station as we know it.

The sustainable living group met at JP Success Inc. to see and hear about what Joe Sullivan has been doing with electric vehicles and also check out the tropical fish in the store upstairs. Joe’s EV work began with a GE Elek-Trak garden tractor. His first automobile gas to electric conversion was a 1977 VW Beetle convertible. He has done 2 more conversions – an Electra Van and a S-10 pickup truck.